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Episode Transcript
What's up, everybody?
My name is Brendan Scott Ecker,a luxury certified realtor in
the state of Michigan, and I'malso the founder and CEO of Gold
Shark Media AI.
And I'm also the course creatorof Pass RE, which is a real
estate course designed to helpany future real estate agents
pass their state licensing exam.
But I'm making this contenttoday.
I'm on my way back from workbecause I'm also a police
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officer.
And I just wanted to go on alittle bit of a rant today.
Let's talk about the state ofaffairs, the state of the world.
Problem is with this worldtoday, not just America, but the
world.
The world is going through areligious war.
It is a war over who should bethe dominant religion.
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Who should be able to haveauthority over the decisions of
the future?
Some people think the Jews, somepeople think the Christians,
some people think Islam.
Well, I can tell you, theFreemasons all laugh at you.
You all believe all the lies.
Yes, you believe that if you goto work every day for the rest
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of your life, you might just oneday have a job, maybe.
And then that job can maybe giveyou a good pension.
So that way, if you stay therefor 20 years, then you'll maybe
get$5,000 a month.
And if you're not making$10,000a month, then I ask you, what
are you doing?
What are you doing?
Like, is going to work reallyworth it?
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Is it worth is it worth it tofollow the system?
To be a slave?
To be in the matrix?
Is it worth it?
Is it worth it?
You tell me, what does your lifelook like right now?
And I'm not harping on youspecifically, but I am.
Because I understand what it'slike to go through hell.
And I know what it's like to befing poor.
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I know what it's like to havenothing.
I know what it's like toactually have to pay your own
way through life.
I didn't have rich parents whohelped me out.
I had a hardworking singlemother my entire life who helped
me get a lot of my success hereand there.
But overall, everything wasbuilt by me.
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Self-made.
I put in the work, I put in thehours, I made the phone calls, I
built the businesses, I took thehits, I took the humiliation
from everybody, I took thenegative comments, I was willing
to do it.
I wrote the books, I was willingto get the feedback, the
negative feedback from thebooks.
I was willing for it all.
And why?
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Because I learned faster thanyou did.
I learned faster than you did.
Some of you have learned fasterthan me.
Some of you are doing very wellin business, you're making
millions of dollars a year.
Congratulations.
If so, work with Gold SharkMedia if you are making that
kind of money.
Let's help you grow and get tothe next level.
That's what we do at Gold SharkMedia.
AI leads, SEO, and promo.
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Yes, we can make you viral, wecan make you famous, we can do
it all.
So go ahead, book yourconsultation with us.
It's free.
Go on the website,GoldSharkMedia.com, or just
shoot me a DM, shoot me amessage, and let's connect and
we'll get you started.
But if you don't do that, thenyou're gonna be like everybody
else, you're gonna be a slave.
And it's the truth.
See, people get really triggeredwhen you call them a slave.
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They some people are too stupidto understand what it means when
you call them a slave.
Some people will say, Oh, that'sracist.
That brings me back to myancestors who were black or
whatever, or who were slaves inthis time or this time 200 years
ago.
It's like, okay, stop it.
Just stop it.
Stop with your victimhood.
Stop.
Just enough.
So I'm not trying to make youfeel like you're a loser, but
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I'm trying to wake you up to aworld where people are doing 10
times better than you and doing10 times less work.
It's frustrating to watch it,isn't it?
You see girls on OnlyFans makinghundreds of millions of dollars.
You see all these people, youngage, 18 years old sometimes, or
even younger, making a hundredmillion dollars, and it's
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nothing.
They sell their business forthat.
And you wonder, what the hell?
What did I do wrong?
Very close look at everything,including my own life, my soul,
everything, and then the worldaround me.
I read the literature, I studiedthose in power, and not just the
words they say, but the actionsthey still take today.
I I follow what the billionairesdo.
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I don't listen to what they say.
I follow and do what they do.
Okay?
And that's what's got me to mysuccess.
I wanted to be rich.
I was intentional about it.
And so I had to go through theemotional turmoil of starting a
business, not knowing if it wasgoing to succeed.
A.
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B, struggling to get clients,especially from people I even
knew.
See, a lot of inexperiencedbusiness owners will tell you
that it's easy to get businessfrom people you know.
Which it is easier to getbusiness from people you know.
Yes, I would agree on somelevel.
However, I think that's alsofalse on so many levels.
And the reason that that's falseis because running my business,
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Gold Shark Media, I have so manymore people I can reach out to,
so many more prospects,basically an unlimited amount.
The amount of money I haveallows me to start more
companies.
And the money I make from thosecompanies, what do you think I
do?
Well, I start more companies.
I take more initiative, I takemore risk, I invest more and
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more and more.
Because here's the kicker (05:23):
when you have enough good ideas, only
one of them needs to stick.
And most people don't understandthis.
Or B, they understand it, butthey're not willing to go
through the pain.
And what do I mean by pain?
Again, rejection.
And you know, all I learned fromthat was that it's just a normal
part of the game.
(05:43):
And here's an analogy I like tomake.
So just like playing football,when you're playing football, or
any sport for that matter, guesswhat?
Part of the game is to lose.
Sometimes you're gonna get yourass kicked.
Sometimes things aren't gonnawork out perfectly.
And this goes for business, thisgoes for entrepreneurship,
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basically anything involvinghigh risk.
Following a dream, somethingthat's crazy to everybody,
whatever it is, it's probablysomething you should do if you
truly believe that everybodyelse is wrong and you're right.
You need to go and pursuethings.
And so the reason that I'msuccessful, the reason that I've
made it work, is because Ireally never believed in the
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system.
And I used the system to myadvantage.
What are you doing with yourlife to make yourself great?
What are you doing that ElonMusk is doing?
Or are you just playing videogames?
Are you just sitting around allday?
Are you sitting on the couch?
Are you sitting at home, kickingback, scrolling on TikTok,
Instagram, Twitter X?
What are you spending your timedoing?
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Whatever it is, it's the reasonyou're sitting right where you
are right now.
A lot of people don't like toaccept that.
A lot of people don't like toaccept the fact that maybe
they've been lied to and ledastray their entire lives.
Well, let's go through it.
From a very young age,immediately, you were trained
that you must go to school andbe in preschool.
And in preschool, you weretaught to stand on the right
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side of the hallway.
Raise your hand at all timesbefore you speak.
Don't go to the bathroom unlessyou get permission.
Don't do anything the teacherdoesn't tell you to do.
Don't say anything the teacherdoesn't tell you to say.
Only speak when spoken to.
Get straight A's or flunk andfail.
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Make no mistakes.
You must get straight A's if youwant to go to college.
And so you go and do that.
Maybe you went and did that.
You you got A's, B's at the endof the day.
Money is the most importantthing.
Beside God, whoever your God is,and I would hope that it's Jesus
Christ, because peopleunderestimate the power of the
Christ, the power of the HolySpirit.
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But I'm not gonna get religiousin this video.
At any time I could switch overto the other side.
But I choose not to because whywould I do that?
Why would I corrupt my soul andbe bought by somebody?
Why would I not have moralvalues?
Why would I not think about myfamily first and think about my
independence first?
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You see, so many people thinkthat thinking about their family
first means, oh, don't quit yourjob.
It's money coming in.
Don't quit your job.
You need to provide for yourfamily and make money.
But the problem is that peoplearen't making enough money
today.
Most people are stuck at a shjob and they're so afraid to
talk about it.
They've been so grinded down bythe system.
Maybe you have too.
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All of these pedophiles in thegovernment, all of these
destructive laws that make ourcountry worse, allowing these
illegal immigrants to flood intoour country, to take over our
jobs, and then our president toback it up when he said he would
not back those things up.
Now who knows?
But if you ask me, things areunpredictable all the time.
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The government's never gonnacome in and save you.
A job is never gonna come in andsave you, and that's what a job
is.
A job is fundamentally maintainsa role for each person.
But truly, this is just amachine.
You're all just little nuts andbolts on a machine, a bigger
machine that you don't evenunderstand.
Of America, of capitalism versussocialism versus communism, why
capitalism is the best choice.
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I proved them all wrong when Itaught them about business and
entrepreneurship and how theyare truly free when they can be
their own boss and not work forsomebody else.
So you see, they know they don'twant you to know that.
They don't want you to be free,they don't want you to be
somebody who has control overyour life, they want you to be a
slave, they want you to be inthe matrix.
You're supposed to be robotic,you're supposed to do as you're
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told, never go outside thelines, never break the rules.
But here, the rules are meant tobe broken, and they are broken
every day by those same peoplewho write them.
And so once you understand thesethings, like Steve Jobs said,
once you understand that life islike a bubble surrounding us,
and at any time you can justpoke through that bubble and see
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on the other side and see thiswhole different world outside of
what you've always known, like adomesticated animal.
There's this whole world outthere, but a domesticated animal
only knows its domain from whatit's owned from what its owner,
its boss, its master requiresthat dog to live in.
You know, I got Gold Shark Medianow.
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I started that, and then I havemy real estate business where I
got licensed to sell luxury realestate, certified as well to
sell luxury real estate.
So work with me, message me atum brendonacker at kw.com, email
me there, or you can always justconnect with me streetmed a DM.
Same thing as Gold Shark Media.
Let's talk about your issues,let's talk about business, let's
talk about real estate.
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This is the stuff I love, thisis why I'm here on earth.
Talk to me about it.
Because I've been there.
I want to help you get there.
But before I can help you getthere, you need to learn first
and foremost that the world youlive in is a lie.
Everything you've been taughtabout this world is a lie.
We are all like ants, truly.
And that's all we are.
To these elites, to these peopleof power.
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And so you only have to askyourself one question: Do you
want to be a person of power andinfluence?
Do you want to play in the game?
Or would you like to be thespectator of the game?
Do you want to be in businessand play the game?
Or do you want to watch peoplesucceed in business?
Maybe this message came out alittle bit rocky, maybe it came
out a little bit controversial,but I think it awakened you a
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little bit.
I think most of you understandwhere I'm coming from.
I come from nothing.
I don't come from wealth.
I don't come from a wealthyfamily.
I come from a blue-collar,blue-collar middle class family.
Always have.
Family of police officers,really, really built a lot of
what we built in this lifebecause we worked hard and we
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never gave up.
So, truly, at the end of theday, you know, coming from a law
enforcement family and ablue-collar family, I grew up in
a world where entrepreneurshipand business, you were seen as a
scam artist.
You were seen as a con man, youwere seen as a sleazy salesman.
But here, my whole life, all Iwould do is watch these people
winning in life.
I'd watch these people justbeing totally successful.
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I'd watch these people drivingnew cars, buying new land,
multifamily real estate.
And so I started to learn fromthese entrepreneurs and these
business owners.
And I and I fell in love withit.
I fell in love with business.
I fell in love withentrepreneurship.
It's the American dream at theend of the day.
It's not baseball, America'spastime.
That's great.
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But at the end of the day, thetrue American pastime is
business.
We are known as a nation, theUnited States of America, to be
innovative.
We created White, the Wrightbrothers.
We created the iPhone.
We created the AC current, theDC current.
We channeled it, harnessed it.
We didn't just create it, weharnessed it.
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We commercialized it.
We built up skyscrapers citiesfrom nothing.
When we came to the new world,your ancestors.
We came here from Ireland,Scotland, Germany, Scandinavia,
from Austria, at least myfamily, from Poland, the spirit
of Europe, bro.
We built this country, thespirit of business and greatness
in the American dream.
It still lives on, but thequestion is are you willing to
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fight for it?
Are you willing to make ithappen in your life?
If that answer is yes, then Ihope you click like, subscribe,
and then obviously email me atinfo at gold shark media to grow
your business.
Or if you want to focus on realestate, investing in real
estate, whatever it might be,selling your real estate, and
let's chat.
I'm luxury certified in thestate of Michigan.
This is what I do.
Spend all the time in the worldlearning about business and real
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estate.
This is everything, baby.
So I'm hoping to work with you.
Let's make you some money.
Let's make you financially freefor a change.
Let's give you some control overyour life.
Or you just want to keepwatching the game.
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